The second qualifier period is about to reach its peak with the Group Stages kicking off next week.

Only thirty-two out of the hundreds of teams that gave their all in the qualifiers for the ESL Nordic Nationals remain. It is now time for them to move on to the next stage of the competition, which means facing each other in the country group stages, as we determine the final four teams for the Offline Finals at Inferno Online, Stockholm, Sweden on 19th-20th December.

The groups

You can find the qualified teams and their respective group below:

Denmark

Group A

Group B

Eastern Vikings

CAZ eSports

Reason Gaming

Mortis

SK Gaming

Epiphany Bolt

FreeOrgLess

TRIXIMIXI

Finland

Group A

Group B

SkitLite

EnRo GRIFFINS Finland

Paranoia-eSports

MopTheFloorWith

MoonCS

DOT SEFI

ajuri

RCE eSports

Norway

Group A

Group B

Celestial Gaming

Team Refuse

team221

PFP

Skadi

emop

Majority-Gaming

Lions

Sweden

Group A

Group B

A LA MIX

dreamchasers

Redline

Torpedo.gg

eXire-eSports

pwned

hatersg0nnahate

DenDD

Format

The group stage matches will be played in a round robin format with best of one matches. The winning teams of each group will advance to play each other in a best of three decider match for the respective country.

Schedule

The second period of ESL Nordic Nationals Group Stages will be taking place from 30th November to 4th December, with one country being featured each day:

Denmark - Monday, 30th November

Finland - Tuesday, 1st December

Norway - Thursday, 3rd December

Sweden - Friday, 4th December

For all of the groups, the start time of the matches is as follows:

First match - 19:00 CET

Second match - 20:15 CET

Third match - 21:30 CET

Group Stage Final - 22:45 CET

Tune in to the matches live from 19:00 CET on all four days, via our Twitch channel.